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Oscillator

a technology of oscillator and oscillator, which is applied in the direction of oscillator stabilization, pulse automatic control, generator stabilization, etc., can solve the problems of difficult to expect an improvement of the frequency accuracy of ocxo, failure of temperature control, and unstable oscillation frequency, so as to reduce the fluctuation of oscillation frequency

Active Publication Date: 2017-05-11
NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO LTD
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Benefits of technology

The disclosed patent text describes an oscillator with a buffer amplifier, heater, and differential amplifier to reduce fluctuations in frequency. The technical effect of this configuration is to cancel out voltage fluctuations from the power source, resulting in a more stable oscillation frequency. Another version includes a constant voltage supply and a heat resistor for additional stability.

Problems solved by technology

As the result, stability of the oscillation frequency deteriorates.
This fails the temperature control when a set temperature in the constant temperature oven is set to a comparatively high temperature.
However, in this Patent Document 1, the temperature sensor is constituted of a thermistor, which is difficult to expect an improvement of frequency accuracy of the OCXO due to a limit of temperature detection accuracy of this thermistor.

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[0037]FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an OCXO 1 according to an embodiment of the disclosure. The OCXO 1 includes a first crystal resonator 11, a second crystal resonator 12, and a first oscillator circuit 11A and a second oscillator circuit 12A that oscillate these crystal resonators. The first oscillator circuit 11A and 12A are constituted of, for example, a Colpitts oscillation circuit. In a latter part side of the first oscillator circuit 11A and the second oscillator circuit 12A, a frequency difference detector 13, a correction value operator 14, an addition unit 15, a PLL circuit unit 16, a low-pass filter (LPF) 17, and a crystal voltage control oscillator (VCXO) 18 are connected. Each of these circuits is disposed in a constant temperature oven.

[0038]The PLL circuit unit 16 treats an oscillation output from the first oscillator circuit 11A as a clock signal. The PLL circuit unit 16 converts a signal corresponding to a phase difference between a pulse signal that is gen...

second embodiment

[0057]An OCXO 5 according to a second embodiment will be described focusing on differences with the OCXO 1. As a difference in this OCXO 5 with respect to the OCXO 1, a heat control circuit 50 is included at a latter part of the PWM circuit 23 as illustrated in FIG. 3. The LPF 24 disposed at the latter part of the PWM circuit 23 in the first embodiment is included in the heat control circuit 50 as described later.

[0058]FIG. 4 is a block diagram of the heat control circuit 50. This heat control circuit 50 includes the heat control circuit 3 described in the first embodiment. Similar to the first embodiment, even in the heat control circuit 3 of this second embodiment, when a voltage applied to the input terminal on the +side of the differential amplifier 31 and a voltage applied to the input terminal on the −side both increase due to an increase of the supply voltage Vcc, resistance values of the respective resistors R are set such that an increase rate of the voltage applied to the ...

third embodiment

[0090]An OCXO 8 according to a third embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. 21 focusing on differences with the OCXO 5 of the second embodiment. This OCXO 8 includes a Digital Signal Processor (DSP) block 81 and a frequency divider 86. The DSP block 81 includes a PI operator 82 and a primary correction unit 83, as well as the frequency difference detector 13, the correction value operator 14, the addition unit 15, and the Pulse with Modulation (PWM) circuit 23, which are described above. The OCXO 8 denotes the memory 10 illustrated in FIG. 1 as a register 84 and the PLL circuit unit 16 and the VCXO 18, which are described above, as one PLL block 85. An output of the PLL block 85 is an output of the above-described VCXO 18. This output of the VCXO 18 is divided by the frequency divider 86 to become the output of this OCXO 8.

[0091]The DSP block 81, the first oscillator circuit 11A, the second oscillator circuit 12A, the PLL block 85, the register 84, and the frequency div...

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Abstract

An oscillator detects a temperature of an atmosphere where a crystal resonator for an oscillation output is placed using a temperature detector to stabilize the temperature by controlling a temperature of a heater based on a temperature detection value. The device includes a buffer amplifier interposed in a signal path of a control signal generated based on the temperature detection value, a heater disposed such that a collector and an emitter position between a power source unit and a ground and constituted of a transistor having a base connected to an output port of the buffer amplifier, and a first differential amplifier disposed to adjust a gain of the buffer amplifier to cancel voltage fluctuation of the power source unit and amplifying a difference between a voltage corresponding to the supply voltage and a preliminarily set voltage to input to a gain adjustment port of the buffer amplifier.

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TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]This disclosure relates to an oscillator including a heater to execute temperature control of an atmosphere where a crystal resonator is placed.BACKGROUND ART[0002]As an oscillator for obtaining a highly accurate oscillation output, there has been known an oven controlled crystal oscillator (OCXO) including, for example, an oscillator circuit, a crystal resonator, a heater, and a temperature sensor in an oven The heater is connected to an input terminal for inputting a supply voltage Vcc of the OCXO, for example. The temperature sensor detects a temperature in the oven and outputs a control voltage corresponding to the detected value to the heater. On the basis of this control voltage, a current flowing from the input terminal to the heater is controlled and a heater electric power is controlled so as to keep the temperature in the oven constant. This stabilizes an output frequency from the crystal resonator. That is, the oven is configured to be a constant temp...

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IPC IPC(8): H03B5/32H03B5/04H03L1/02H03L7/099H03L7/24
CPCH03B5/32H03L7/099H03B2200/0034H03L1/028H03B5/04H03L7/24H03L7/08H03B5/36H03L1/02
Inventor AKAIKE, KAZUOKOBATA, TSUKASAYORITA, TOMOYA
Owner NIHON DEMPA KOGYO CO LTD